Explainers How to Develop Purpose, Vision, and Mission Statements That Actually Impact Daily Work Involve stakeholders in conversations about the future of the organization to develop meaningful purpose, vision, and mission statements
Explainers Why Burnout Is Hard to Avoid—and How to Restore Work Life Balance Saying “no” to incoming projects and colleagues’ requests can be difficult in the workplace, but these habits can help you prioritize
Explainers The Principles of Change Management That Transform Organizations Overcoming skepticism is often the biggest challenge that organizations face—but together, change is possible
Explainers Breaking the Cycle of Burnout in the Workplace If you’re investing too much time in work, you may rationalize unhealthy behaviors to prove to others, and yourself, that it’s worth it.
Tools Use a “Change Audit” to Reflect on Progress and Set Intentions Six questions that will help you determine how to make change in the year ahead
Explainers How to Rebuild Trust in the Workplace Trust can be repaired, but it’s not easy—and there’s no one process for every scenario. We examine different methods for rebuilding relationships with your team based on Nonviolent Communication, Restorative Justice, and other established practices.
Explainers Building Trust in the Workplace To increase trust on teams, leaders must understand what influences people’s willingness to trust, as well as what makes leaders trustworthy
Tools How Learning Roundtables Make Your Organization Smarter and More Resilient Teams must have opportunities to be candid about the progress towards their goals, to work through how to achieve their desired outcomes, and hopefully, to learn from their colleagues’ experiences
Tools How User Manuals Foster Team Development Making personal preferences and working styles explicit speeds up the forming and norming process
Tools How to Create a More Equitable Experience for Remote, Hybrid, and On-Site Employees An employee experience map tracking gaps in the on-site, remote, and hybrid experience can create a more equitable workplace, wherever work takes place.
Explainers How to Adapt Performance Management for Remote and Hybrid Workplaces Focus on outcomes and recalibrate regularly with your team to make sure you’re measuring the right results
Tools Track Organizational Change with a Change Charter This “cheat sheet” aligns leaders on the changes they want to see in their teams and serve as a communication tool for the organization at large
Explainers Strategic Planning for Startups and Small Teams Slowing down to think about the future will ultimately help you move faster in response to dynamic conditions.
Explainers How to Introduce a New Strategic Planning Approach into Legacy Organizations Introduce new behaviors and identify what needs to change to make the most of teams’ strategic planning sessions
Explainers Getting Culture Change Started Across the world, organizations are reckoning with who they must become when there is some form of return from the pandemic; triggering a global need for culture change support and guidance
Explainers How the Cynefin Framework Guides Organizational Decision Making Classifying your environment can help decide how your organization should respond—but watch out for these biases
Explainers In Change, Beware Conflating Uncertainty with Risk “Uncertainty” and “risk” are not interchangeable. Amid change, organizations hazard losing time and returns to their competitors if they obsess over what’s to lose versus what’s possible.
Explainers Improving Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Whether just starting out or setting stretch goals, organizations can always find ways to improve their equity, diversity, and inclusion practices
Explainers A Change Model for the 21st Century: How to Make Lasting Organizational Change Together, change is possible. We take an in-depth look at what prevents change within organizations, and share our tried-and-tested approach to changemaking
Explainers Choose to Change: Why Organizations Must Design for the Future, Now COVID forced organizations to change and created new market conditions. But now, organizations must choose what changes to make and design work for the future.